Reviews
Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
When Jeremy Dutcher received the Polaris Prize (the Canadian equivalent of the Mercury Prize) for this album in September, he...
Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Wick to Wickham
Best known as a member of the fiddle-led supergroup Session A9, Scottish fiddler and composer Gordon Gunn has not recorded...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: December/2015
MistO-MistO
The press release talks of a ‘primordial soup,’ the cover art suggests something cosmic and funky in a Fela Kuti...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
The Roaring Whirl
The conceit of this disc is to take readings from Kipling's Kim and juxtapose them against a musical interpretation of...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: March/2020
Songs to Scythe Back the Overgrown
This young Manchester-based singer-songwriter and guitarist first made a bit of a name for himself in a duo with fiddler...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2012
Nduggu
Rafiki Jazz have carved out a reputation for their beautifully fluid mixing of musical traditions that always sounds natural, never...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2021
Bimo
This is the fifth album from the Senegalese griot and kora player who has been UK based for the last...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: August/September/2022
Masaryk: Národní Písně: Moravian and Slovak Folk Songs Reimagined
A devoted exponent of Yiddish song, Lenka Lichtenberg returns with a deeply personal album that reimagines a 75-year-old collection of...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: November/2017
Transatlantic Sessions Series 6, Volume One
What started nearly two decades ago as an elegantly simple idea for a TV show – gather together some excellent...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2014
Songhive: Beelore & Folksong in the British Isles
Folk music often has a special relationship with the native flora and fauna of the land from which it springs....
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2018
